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Originally Posted by 45Auto
A fully autonomous robot has the ability to
- Gain information about the environment.
- Work for an extended period without human intervention.
- Move either all or part of itself throughout its operating environment without human assistance.
- Avoid situations that are harmful to people, property, or itself unless those are part of its design specifications.
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When the operating environment is sufficiently constrained, and the time period is limited to 2 minutes, and the actions a robot can initiate are adequately limited, this is a much less daunting problem.
It's still big, no doubt.
But please consider that, for some of these kids, the typical team's 'make the robot so I can drive it' programming is about as challenging as putting Legos together or 'paint by numbers'.
Personally, I only hope this initiative isn't a flash in the pan.